TY - JOUR
T1 - Movement Disorders as a Complication of Acute Hemiplegia of Childhood
AU - Quaglieri, Charles E.
AU - Chun, Raymond W.M.
AU - Cleeland, Charles
PY - 1977/9
Y1 - 1977/9
N2 - We evaluate three cases of acute hemiplegia in childhood complicated by tremor and/or choreoathetosis. Each patient experienced the abrupt onset of hemiplegia thought to be localized to an insult involving the middle cerebral distribution without associated seizure, trauma, loss of consciousness or demonstrable cardiac, hematological or neoplastic causes. All three patients recovered most, if not all, strength on the affected side, but each was left with a disorder of movement involving the previously hemiplegic upper extremity. These disorders included resting and intention tremors, as well as choreoathetosis. Anticholinergic drugs failed in treating two patients, but biofeedback techniques were quite successful in one of the two patients so treated.
AB - We evaluate three cases of acute hemiplegia in childhood complicated by tremor and/or choreoathetosis. Each patient experienced the abrupt onset of hemiplegia thought to be localized to an insult involving the middle cerebral distribution without associated seizure, trauma, loss of consciousness or demonstrable cardiac, hematological or neoplastic causes. All three patients recovered most, if not all, strength on the affected side, but each was left with a disorder of movement involving the previously hemiplegic upper extremity. These disorders included resting and intention tremors, as well as choreoathetosis. Anticholinergic drugs failed in treating two patients, but biofeedback techniques were quite successful in one of the two patients so treated.
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U2 - 10.1001/archpedi.1977.02120220075013
DO - 10.1001/archpedi.1977.02120220075013
M3 - Article
C2 - 900077
AN - SCOPUS:0017530076
SN - 0096-8994
VL - 131
SP - 1009
EP - 1010
JO - American Journal of Diseases of Children
JF - American Journal of Diseases of Children
IS - 9
ER -